alyson sorensen

We won! Thank you Ward 8! I am so ready to get to work

“No hell is hot enough or eternal enough for Dick Cheney.”

storming the gates of Yacht Club day one and starting a chant to get Sheryl Crow to sing the song from Cars

If the Supreme Court thinks universal injunctions are unconstitutional, to wait until *now* to say that, in this of all cases, with this of all presidents, is a devastating indictment of both its impartiality and its prudence.

Jail Voting Soars in Colorado After State Mandates Polling Places in County Lockups - Bolts Local officials had claimed they were already giving detained people ballot access, but Colorado's first-in-the-nation mandate forced their hands and increased turnout across the state.

Colorado forced every county jail to open a polling place in November for incarcerated voters. This had never happened in the country.

Guess what resulted?

Jail turnout rose *500%* over 2020.

Many lessons here for the rest of the U.S.

New in @bolts.bsky.social:

boltsmag.org/jail-voting-...

sometimes I slip and think the law isn’t for me and I don’t actually love the practice of law, but then I find a double jeopardy issue and jump up and down in excitement in my office.

Realizing I could go to Mexico and buy a bunch of stuff just before the tariffs take effect.

joan baez singing will the circle be unbroken with the muppets on the muppet show and lecturing the rats about non-violent resistance does NOT count as screentime

this is me from camp rock into defying gravity at the gay club in boys town, i love my friends i love chicago

A front page for the ages.

If you listen to Sufjan's two Christmas albums from start to finish starting at 7pm on Christmas Eve- you will finish just 9 minutes before midnight on Christmas.

if you have a thoughtful, principled opposition to vigilante violence in general, even in times of a decaying or altogether absent social contract, then more power to you. I think most actually don't have that. and some only have that in times of social stability.

i am completely fine with biden pardoning his kid. i have one single complaint about biden and clemency and it's...not this! here are my thoughts:

All of these things can be true:
- Hunter Biden broke the law.
- Hunter Biden traded on his last name to make money.
- Hunter Biden’s actions were exploited and wildly exaggerated by unscrupulous Republicans in an effort to damage his father.

Pardoning Hunter Biden is a reasonable and practical choice. It’ll be a clear-eyed moral one too if the president exercises the pardon power more in the coming weeks to rectify unjust sentencing disparities.

Post airport Sunday night after Thanksgiving pho save me, save me post airport Sunday night after Thanksgiving pho

Timberwolves warmups on a green court

The Timberwolves are holding space for the lyrics of defying gravity

The duality of man is in plain view on my Spotify right now with this Kendrick album release/Wicked opening weekend situation

It also makes sense that Roberts offered the opinion because he absolutely would have slammed Nixon for this nonsense in ‘74, but now he’s fine with retroactively legalizing Watergate and probably didn’t have a complicated thought about it.

Starting to think the reason that all the arguments against a labor standards board are tedious, procedural (no public hearing!), or factually wrong is that there's no good argument against a labor standards board.

The real breaking news is that Matt Gaetz is a lawyer. Who knew? Surely not I.

Matt Gaetz for attorney general is wild. It’ll be a disaster in multiple ways, but the odds of this administration being such a clown car it doesn’t get that many horrific things done does seem to increase with each cabinet pick.

What organizing is already taking place to thwart oncoming efforts to build a new jail? What existing coalitions can I plug into and support?

Minnesota DOC orders Hennepin County to reduce jail population after finding staff negligence A Minnesota Department of Corrections report says the county jail failed to complete mandatory wellness checks and have appropriate staffing on multiple occasions.

While it’s true the Hennepin County Jail is understaffed and routinely creates dangerous situations for incarcerated folks, our leaders will use these reports to beat the racist punishment drum to use public funds to build a new jail in Hennepin County.

www.mprnews.org/story/2024/1...

A husky/brittany spaniel mix adult dog with heterochromia laying in a patch of bright sun on an indoor couch. Her hair around her ears is wild as if just waking up from a nap.

My boss yelled at me this morning for letting my early November numbers slip. Time to get back to work. 😤

(My boss is my dog and my early November numbers are my hours spent on the couch since last Tuesday).

Recent veterans are twice as likely to be incarcerated than the average American. Vets with chemical use disorders are 2-3x more likely to be arrested. I’m thinking about those folks today—the people who volunteer their minds and bodies only to be persecuted by the state. @prisonpolicy.bsky.social

I’m excited to see the twin cities’ saddest, most nostalgic 30-somethings at the death cab/postal service show tonight